Photography is my life.
Vita Barbara Wolff
Born 1951 in Kyritz, Ostprignitz (Germany)
1969 Abitur, apprenticeship as a photographer in his father’s business in Kyritz
1970 – 1975 Studium der Fotografie an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig(Diplom)
since 1975 freelance work in Leipzig and Berlin: photography, illustrative collages, book design
1985 Move to Munich
since 1990 Freelance workLinhof Präzisions-Systemtechnik GmbH as photographer and graphic designer
since 1995 organization and management of seminars and workshops on digital and classical photography
1998 – 2011 teaching photography and communication designDesignschule München (Deutsche Meisterschule für Mode)
1999 Working stay in Yemen, setting up a digital photo studio
2006 teaching stay at Imatra Art College, Finland
2007 lecture tour PR China on photographic topics
2008 Lecture tour and workshop to Vietnam on photographic topics, Goethe Institute Hanoi
2011 move to Berlin, free photographic projects
2014 Mitarbeit und Organisation Kinder- und Jugendfotowettbewerb“Entdeckungsreise 2014” Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
2015 Collaboration and organization workshop aerial photography and gliding with Flugsportclub Kyritz.
2015 Workshop “pinhole camera” for children at Quellenhof Garbisdorf
2017 lecture tour PR China on photographic topics
2019 Workshop “Selfie”, Casa das Artes, Belem, Brasilien
2021 photo concert in Berlin and Vendome to “METROPOLIS” with Stephan von Bothmer
2021 Deutscher Fotobuchpreis for METROPOLIS, BERLIN
Exhibition Barbara Wolff
2005 „Ans Meer!“, Lübeck-Travemünde, Deutschland
2005 „Sommerfrische“, Murnau, Deutschland
2006 „Serienweise“, Burghausen, Deutschland
2006 „Horizonte“, Galerie Villa Ruh, Zingst, Deutschland
2007 „Real – sortiert – fingiert“, Munich, Deutschland
2008 „Transit“, Munich, Pasinger Fabrik
2008 Annual exhibition, Ebersberg, Deutschland
2009 „Ans Meer!“ (2), Exhibition St.-Laurentius Church Schönberg
2009 „Hanoi – Moving“, Galerie Gedokmuc, Munich
2011 „Transit F5“ and „Ghostwriter“ Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
2012 „Kunst offen“, Wredenhagen
2014 „I was here!“, Wegemuseum Wusterhausen
2017 “On the own account”, Collection Regard, Berlin
2018 Exhibition participation in the Fotohaus Arles, Frankreich, collectionregard.de/
2019 Exhibition participation “OSMOSCOSMOS” Centre de la Photographie, Genf, www.50jpg.ch/en/
2019 Museeum Vendome, France https://promenadesphotographiques.com/
2019 “Biography, Images from Two German States”, Casa das Artes, Belém, Brazil, with the support of the Goethe Institute Salvador and the DAAD.
2020 “It’s the pictures that stay”, exhibition Lunik Berlin
2021 “Metropolis”, Collection Regard, Berlin
2021 “Metropolis, Berlin”, LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, Arles, Frankreich
2021 “Sauver les corps”, ParisBerlin Fotogroup, Institut français Berlin
2021 “BERLIN TRIPTYCHON”- Anno Wilms, Barbara Wolff and Christian Schulz,
Collection Regard in the Librairie Métamorphoses, Paris
2022 “Sauver les corps”, ParisBerlin Fotogroup, group exhibitiong Toulouse
2022 Barbara Wolff – Photographs, Goethe-Institut Bordeaux
2022 METROPOLIS, ParisBerlin Fotohaus Bordeaux
2023 Series “Angel” Exhibition participation Fotohaus Bordeaux
Publications
1990, 2000 Linhof Camera Story (Kodak Photo Book Award)
2000 Outdoor Photography
2002 Image Circle
2017 Catalog Collection Regard
2019 Post in Photonews 3/19
2020 Online Publikation: Es sind die Bilder, die bleiben
2020 Metropolis Berlin, photography book
2020 AMAZONIA, Barbara Wolff. Publisher: Foundation Photography Black & White
Books on Demand: see project pages
Member of BBK Berlin
Member of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Photographie DGPh
represented by Collection Regard, Berlin
Links
Pepper`s Photo Chat #10
Jens Pepper talks to Barbara Wolff about her life as a photographer in two German states. Berlin, April 2022.
Camera and production: Philip Dresmann
Youtube Video – please accept the terms of use.
Photography concert
Stephan von Bothmer improvises on the piano after the photographs of the METROPOLIS series. In collaboration with Collection Regard. Livestream from 26.02.2021 from the ALTEN PUMPE Berlin.
Youtube Metropolis – please accept the terms of use.
Foto TV
Film by Matthias Leupold about Barbara Wolff, her works and the book “Metropolis, Berlin
https://www.fototv.de/
